At 03:37 PM 3/28/00 -0500, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
>Something that has been driving me bananas here too is the
>way we do the flashing cursor, even if we loose focus. Try
>bringing up a dialog ... note that even though the dialog
>is modal, the cursor continues to flash. Now go an take
>that dialog and drag it around on top of the cursor so
>the cursor is half covered. Move it up and down. Now
>you get this cool ... half on/half off flashing cursor.
>At the very least if we had a
>
> LoosingFocus()
> GainingFocus()
>
>callout it would give us a place to indicate that the
>document was loosing focus or gaining focus and we
>could turn the flashing cursor off.
I totally agree. It's a total wart on the UI. For a more complete proposal
on how to handle this, see:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/March/0419.html
I'm tempted to write this up as a POW either tonight or tomorrow, so I'd
appreciate up-front feedback on the proposed behaviors from folks on each
platform who care about nitty-gritty details in the look and feel.
Thanks,
Paul
